Tropicals & Tender Perennials: Jinny Lind and a bit of Rubiline and Rubirosa History, 1 by xeriscape8321

xeriscape8321 wrote:
This is Jinny Lind. A brugmansia from hybridizer JT Sessions. I've had this plant for quite a few years but pushed it to the back of the yard and never really paid much attention to it. When i found it again it was 8 feet tall, had Y'd and had a small bud on it.
The cross on this one is a bit tricky. So here is a bit of history as i know it.....

Across the pond Monika Gottschalk had made a cross of Ecuador Pink x Rothkirch which produced some beautiful plants. She named one of them Rubirosa. The other seedlings were just as nice but almost identical to Rubirosa. So they were not actually named individually, although they made it into distribution...Hence these pod sisters are grouped together in a group called "Rubilines". How and when Rubirosa and the Rubilines made it here to the states has always been questioned. Some say that the Rubirosa used in some crosses are dated "pre Rubirosa import" and should be considered rubilines, because those apparently made it here first...

How everything got here and when it got here is sort of a muddled story and nobody knows exactly.

JT Sessions claims this is an actual Rubirosa x L'amour cross. His Cubits website and the BGI website list this as a true Rubirosa cross. The ABADS database, disputing the timeline lists this as an (Ecuador Pink x Rothkirch cross) x L'amour which would make it a rubiline cross...which is it??? Nobody will ever know for sure.

At this point I don't care. The result is a beautiful cultivar with heavy Aurea influences. The fragrance is light but pleasant. Blooms are waxy which makes it a great warm climate brug.

This is the first bloom but she has already (as you can see from one of the pics below) begun to set enough new buds for a flush within the next couple of weeks. JT reports Jinny Lind to be a heavy bloomer....which will be nice.....it took 3 days for the bloom to fully color up, finally settling in to a nice dark pink...I have crossed her with Samba Dancer

First Day....just a bit of color but showing nice form

This message was edited Mar 16, 2011 5:59 AM